#Freedom Seekers

[chemung-valley-curator]

The Terror of the Fugitive Slave Act By Rachel Dworkin, Archivist

[first published January 17, 2022] Earlier this month I got the coolest gift for my birthday. And by I, I of course mean the museum, but the donation came on my birthday, so I’m counting it. The gift in question was a letter from Mary and Seymour Fairman of Elmira to Mary’s parents in Fredonia, dated July 8, 1845. In the letter, the Fairmans talked about Elmira’s small, but growing, Black community and the problem of slave catchers. (READ MORE)

[awesomecooperlove]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻STRAIGHT UP TRUTH IN FOUR MINUTES 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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[ausetkmt]

"Uncovering Ancestors at Canfield Black Cemetery"

Volunteers worked to clean up a historic Black cemetery in Canfield on Saturday. Volunteers have been working for 28 years to have the historic cemetery recognized and preserved.

The Canfield cemetery is the subject of a docuseries called Canfield Roots. The series shares some of the stories of the Black families who made Canfield their home.

Aileen Duncan pushes her walker through a field in Canfield on route to the cemetery where her ancestors are buried.Cathie Coward

Aileen Duncan manoeuvres her walker through the bush that has been cleared thanks to Michael Konkle, and other volunteers who have been working to preserve and clean up the cemetery where Aileen's ancestors are buried in Canfield.

Aileen Duncan, right, and her sister Lucretia Harris, centre bent over clearing vegetation and brother Myron Duncan, left, are descendants of the Street family who are buried in the cemetery.

The toppled gravestone of W.M. Alexander Barnes has been discovered in the cleanup process at a historic Black cemetery in Canfield.

The newly unearthed grave marker of Stepney Street, Aileen Duncan's great-great grandfather a freedom seeker who fled slavery in the United States using the underground railway. He was the first person to be buried in this black cemetery in Canfield. His wife Lucy Canada joined him in Canada via the underground railroad sometime after him bringing with her the oldest of their young children.

She found Stepney by putting an advertisement in the newspaper when she arrived. The couple went on to have 13 children. Other family members are assumed to be buried in the cemetery but their gravestones have not yet been located.

[beastblade69]

dumbass people online don't even think of us as of human beings, all they fucking do is make MeMeS 🤪🤪 about ww3 or ukraine DemAnDiNg MoNeY FroM TgE UsA. as if we were fucking homeless people in a need of charity. let me break it to you: WE DON'T LIKE IT EITHER, WE WOULD RATHER LIVE OUR LIVES IN A FREE COUNTRY THAN ASK YOU FOR HELP JUST TO BE HUMILIATED AND INVALIDATED IN THR END. BUT THAT'S THE WAY THINGS ARE FOR US NOW. unfortunately we don't have the privilege of living comfortably in a free country without electricity being turned off for like 16 hours daily and constant air raids. NO ONE would ever wish this to happen, everyone just wants to live a free careless life but oh well we live next door to russia aka a terrorist state and we cannot give in because then all our hopes for the brighter future would be crushed once and for all. we want OUR land FREED. we don't just ask for help because we find it entertaining or enjoy taking your money away, we ask for help because WE NEED HELP IN THIS FIGHT WITH RUSSIAN TYRANNICAL REGIME WHICH BRINGS NOTHING MORE THAN PAIN AND SUFFERING OF THE BLAMELESS

and for everyone who sees ukrainian civilians online posting something unrelated to war and immediately comments on their post with "it doesn't look like there's an ongoing war in your country" FUCK YOU. have you ever lived through war? or did you just watch several war movies and are now judging based on what you saw there? we cannot always post about the invasion, we can't always think about it because it'd drive us crazy. and in order to be able to help we have to be relatively sane. how should victims of the war act anyways?? like are there any rules or shit? maybe we should all eat from trashcans and cry 24/7 with no breaks?? if we all were crying and eating shit we found on the streets (because apparently when the war begins the economy stops working and you can't even find fine products to eat anymore and you are not obligated to work to pay taxes because taxes disappear along with economy idk??) would it look more convincing to you? or you would still find an excuse to invalidate our struggles?

[godisarepublican]

Well, let's face it, Biden never once cared about the American people so why should he start now? BRING ON THE TERRORISTS, Joe!

[iniziare]

↪ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐈𝐓 : An aesthetics dash game.

𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐁𝐎 𝐁𝐀𝐆𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒. a warm hearth. lovingly sewn buttons. the search for adventure. comfortable routine. unexpected bravery. tea - stained pages. cozy armchairs. dusty relics. hidden strengths. garden parties. moonlit windows. quick thinking. humble heroism. resourceful in chaos. clever wordplay.

𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐍 𝐎𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃. never found cowering. strong familial ties. a fierce opponent. loyalty over love. tempered steel. haunted by the past. defending one’s stronghold. sense of duty. forged in fire. honor above all. the weight of legacy. shaped by adversity, tempered by loss. fiercely protective.

𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐋𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐘. the balancing of fate. ancient magic. purifying power. bringer of light**. wise guidance. secret keeper. forgotten paths. unseen destinations. cryptic answers. hidden chambers. a mysterious figure. the voice of reason.

𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐈𝐋. haunted by echoes of the past. elegant majesty. moonlit counsel. secrets kept in silence. the cautious leader. love of rare beauty. wisdom in isolation. heart of the forest. a silent observer. calculative & condescending**.

𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐔𝐆. golden hoards. thirst for destruction. golden armor. fearsome majesty. glinting claws. the dark allure of treasure. insatiable greed. scorched earth. the unyielding sentinel. watching & waiting. what does not kill you should run. finding a wicked enjoyment in others’ suffering. only one weakness.

𝐀𝐙𝐎𝐆. unfettered brutality. eternal darkness. the rot of vengeance. a warrior’s rage. brute strength. iron - clad resolve. a litany of scars. an unrelenting force. maimed in battle. religion in bloodshed. servant of the darkness. ancient hatreds. branded with malice.

Tagged by: I stole it from @suledein 'cause I'm a pirate, and where you go, I go, kinda. Tagging: @driofaire (Rook), @mercysought (guess who), @immobiliter (Varric, or the... other one, you know the man), @spitecrow and @rookedcrow while I hope that it grabs all the mentions... But also, anyone else who wants to do this, steal it, and tag me. I love seeing these.

[isatoru]

luffy profile picture is so crazy

[captainkurosolaire]

Overcome yer boundaries t' defeat me, o' daughter ov' mine.

[devinetheory-2]

We are all slaves.

They didn't give us freedom

They just made us a bigger cage.

- Devine Theory

[gaytoddhoward]

they should invent a roadwarden where i complete all my goals on the first try 💔

[americanmarketplace]

Operation Northwoods

The tense relationship between the United States and Cuba during the Cold War led the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to hatch a slew of bizarre schemes aimed at taking down the Castro regime. While the goal of most of these covert operations (such as Operation Mongoose) was to assassinate Fidel Castro himself, other plans aimed to incite an all-out war between the U.S. and Cuba, experts have said. 

In 1998, the National Security Archive (NSA) — a non-governmental organization that publishes information made available through the Freedom of Information Act — posted declassified documents related to Operation Northwoods. The scheme, dreamed up in 1962 by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (uniformed members of the U.S. Department of Defense who advise the president and others), involved committing acts of violence against U.S. and Cuban civilians and then blaming those acts on the Cuban government, according to the NSA documents. These acts, which included faked terrorist attacks in U.S. cities, the hijacking of planes and the sinking of boats full of Cuban émigrés en route to the U.S., would then be used to justify a war with Cuba, according to the documents.

The Kennedy administration recognized the folly of Operation Northwoods and rejected it, according to news reports.

[awesomecooperlove]

😯😯😯

[fatherramiro]

something something henry talks about seekers and avoiders and most of the characters who make it to the final episode would be considered seekers in his view and most of the ones who perish before episode eight are avoiders :))))))))))

[amaris-d-akagami]

Erica: Captain. You stay positive, You always believe that everything is going to work out. How do you do it??

Amaris: well! I'll tell you my secret my friend!

Erica: Yes..?

Amaris: I lie to myself.

Amaris: Every morning when I wake up, I say everything's gonna be okay! But I'm lying.

Amaris grabs Erica's shoulders: and I don't know how much longer I can do it.

Amaris: Have a swellnight, Erica! :D

Erica: 😟

[godisarepublican]

The "I'm a liberal" trope